EDSA anniversary not among Palace list of 2024 non-working days, special holidays
Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, October 13) — Malacañang has released the list of regular holidays and special non-working days for 2024.
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Cholera threatens millions left homeless by typhoon
Four million Filipinos made homeless by Typhoon Haiyan were today facing a growing threat from water-borne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.Dr Julie Hall of the World Health Organisation said it was impossible to say how many had no access to clean water supplies 10 days after the typhoon struck leaving 5,000 people dead or missing. Cholera killed 8,000 after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.The Briton, Who's representative in the capital Manila, said the storm had «ripped through the middle of the country, adding: „We know that four million people have been displaced.“Some of them will have access to clean water supplies, some will have access only intermittently and some will be struggling.